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Hello! So, i was going to add some helpful information i knew on a page, but it said it was not constructive. Please, disable it so i can add this important information. I just want to make wikia a better place. Thanks! --Troublemaker12345 (talk) 21:35, 11 December 2015 (UTC)
Hi, a diff is the difference between web pages. You'd need to go to the page and find the revision before yours. When you do that you should see the option for "newer revision". Click on this and then copy and paste the link that appears in the address bar to my talk page. 5 albert square (talk) 00:27, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
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Changes this week
Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [1]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 December at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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Tech News
Because of the holidays, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016.
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Recent changes
CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information)
The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information)
Changes this week
There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 (calendar).
Meetings
Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments.
No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.
5 albert square, I hope you have a Merry Christmas and hope your day is full of the true spirit of the day. Plus, good food, good family and good times. :) Have a Great Day! :) - Neutralhomer • Talk • 01:25, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
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Happy new years, 33aircharter speaking! I've been having a recent challenge with an anonymous user edits of Air Berlin between Barbados and two cities of Germany, can you give me an input or advise please? Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 33aircharter (talk • contribs)
OK, any edits like that, I would start a discussion on the talk page of the article. Find out why people don't want that in the article etc etc.--5 albert square (talk) 16:49, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
Regarding your recent revert of my edit on Sian Blake, surely it is original research stating that she was believed to have been killed in December? I know it is fairly obvious she was most likely killed in December but she could have been killed in January nonetheless. We have no sources that would contradict that as of now, and while I know there's a circa, I would recommend leaving her date of death being December 2015/ January 2016, unless you have any evidence that she was believed to have been killed in 2015.Theoosmond (talk) 18:11, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
It doesn't say that she was killed in December. It says that she was killed roughly December 2015, so therefore the date is not exact. Saying circa December 2015 is enough as that means it could be December or January. I daresay we will know more soon enough.--5 albert square (talk) 18:15, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
I've just noticed that you already had an explanation here regarding the circa date. If you're still disputing this, I would suggest that you open a discussion on the article talk page where everyone can see the discussion and join in.--5 albert square (talk) 18:19, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
No, I kept the circa date in my last edit edit, to mean around the two months. If it seems best for it to be like that, with the circa and the single month, it's best and I'll leave it at that. I was just concerned it might imply she was definitely killed in December 2015, and while that is the most likely scenario, she could have been killed in January. But if most editors don't seem to agree with that, I won't do anything. Thanks. Theoosmond (talk) 18:50, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
Apologies, mis-read the dates so I've restored Water & Bubbles and Jaws in Japan. However, Virus Attack remains deleted because it was previously deleted following a deletion discussion. The attempt on it this time was the same word-for-word so there was no improvement.--5 albert square (talk) 01:24, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
@Hawkeye7: No worries, it was an easy decision. I wasn't involved when you were desysopped but I reckon everyone deserves a second chance. If you need any help you know where I am :)--5 albert square (talk) 23:03, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
Sites with a wikimedia.org address were by mistake redirected to the Wikimedia Foundation wiki on 26 January. This included Meta and Wikimedia Commons. The mistake was fixed after an hour. [4]
Some users had problems logging in and out around 22 January. Bots also had problems and edit previews did not work properly. This was because of problems related to the new component SessionManager. It was undone on 23 January. [5][6]
Because of new problems with SessionManager the latest version of MediaWiki was removed from the Wikimedia wikis again on 31 January. The new version this week will be without SessionManager. [7]
Changes this week
The page history will get a help link. This will go to Help:Page history on Meta. Wikis can exchange it for a link to their local pages. [8]
Notifications will only show part of a page name if it is very long. You will also have another way to mark notifications as read. [9][10]
The Universal Language Selector input methods are now available with the visual editor. This means many who write in non-Latin scripts can now use the visual editor. [11]
The visual editor will now give you more tools to edit tables. You can move rows and columns in a table and copy parts of tables to make new ones. You can also copy and paste more than one cell at the same time. [12][13][14]
The visual editor has a new warning message when you leave a page you are editing without saving. Non-English wikis might need to translate it. [15][16]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 2 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
The rest.wikimedia.org domain will be shut down. This is planned to happen in March. You should use /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain instead. [17]
Hey, do you think this article needs some protection? It looks like some people who have encountered User:Gillyh offline are attempting to add their own views about Brewer's career choices to the article's lead. - JuneGloom07Talk02:54, 4 February 2016 (UTC)
That's great. thanks. I think this is an issue that's going to keep cropping up since Gilly doesn't appear to be giving up her "Bring back Kate" protest anytime soon. - JuneGloom07Talk00:52, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
She's always been fixated on Ashleigh/Kate, as she's the only one for Mark. Ashleigh came back to Australia during a break from The Bold and the Beautiful, so apparently she's making a return to Neighbours (with Mark's daughter). - JuneGloom07Talk19:39, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
Ah, for some reason I forgot about poor Ashleigh/Kate! The article is protected for a month, if it comes to it, after that I'll indefinitely protect it.--5 albert square (talk) 20:22, 5 February 2016 (UTC)
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When you get a notification that an edit has been reverted, the notification now quotes part of the edit summary. [19]
RESTBase is now using scrub_wikitext instead of scrubWikitext. [20]
Changes this week
Wikidata will have a new data type called "math". It will be used for formulas. [21][22]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 9 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Other sites will be able to tell when visitors come from links on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites. They used to be able to do this until we started using forced HTTPS in June 2015. This is planned to happen on 15 February. [23][24]
Wikidata will have a new data type called "external-id". It will be used for references to external resources. It will be enabled on February 16. Some properties will be changed to the new data type. [25][26][27]
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Recent changes
You can now edit pages on the mobile site version without JavaScript. [28]
A few editors might have been logged in as someone else because of a bug. For security reasons everyone was logged out on 9 February. If you have seen this bug, you can report it. [30][31]
Changes this week
There is a beta feature that adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. The plan was to have it leave beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. It will happen on 16 February instead. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled. [32][33]
Cross-wiki notifications will be available as a beta feature on Wikidata, MediaWiki, Commons, and all Hebrew and French wikis on 19 February. [34]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all wikis from 18 February (calendar).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 16 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
The search function on Wikimedia wikis will get a completion suggester that tries to find the right pages as the user is typing. It will also recognize some typos. This will probably happen in March. It is currently in beta. [35]
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